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Rik van Riel wrote:

> While I believe that a self tuning timeout might be better in
> the long run, this tunable will certainly help tune policy.

Thank you for your comments.

I agree with you. The best solution is a self tuning timeout.
Using this swap_token_timeout parameter, I would like to get 
a clue to self tuning.


Best regards, 

Hideo AOKI

Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.